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Course Start and End Dates:
Fall 2008
From-To: August 18 – October 13 - 1st eight weeks
421P - Multimedia Streaming
From-To: October 13 – December 12 - 2nd eight weeks
400D - Database
422P - Web Writing
424P - Web Radio
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Click here for online Course Orientation - and here for lesson and quiz descriptions
Thank You,
Mike Strong
Note: The common web page starter is being
changed to simplify the requirement. These are not web-design courses but are
courses designed to show you how to add media content to pages. A little like
knowing how to change the oil without being a mechanic.
NOTICE: Because of changes on campus from Office 2003 to Office 2007 I have had to almost totally re-write some of the courses, in particular the database course. That has put me behind on some substantial updates and changes to the other courses (in particular the multi-media / web streaming course), some of which are starting now. That means I am a bit behind and will need a few more days to put up the changes for the course starting now. Go ahead and look at the courses anyway. Do login. Just don't take quizzes at the moment. Do start your websites if you don't already have a site. If you do have a site, do add a page for the course or courses you are taking this term. So, my apologies for the extra time needed but the change in the Office programs required not only a new set of screen captures but a lot of work in changing the instructions for the way in which various features work (some dissappeared and some morphed).
Personal note on Office 2007 : These are not really changes and improvements. These are mostly cosmetic blankets which add a ton of overhead (chewing up more CPU cycles without giving more worth). Some are losses, not improvements, especially in killing most of the menus and substituting tabbed tool bars. There are a couple of actual improvements but puzzling and largely incomplete. I've been actively doing database programming since the early 80's (my first FORTRAN program was in the fall of 1966 on an IBM Systems 360, but I was so non-comprehending it is hardly worth counting except to note the date). Xerox's PARC had an electronic office going in the early 1970's. Office applications were common and widespread in the late 70's to early 80's already. By then we had the 90-95% of the core functions we have had ever since. The recent changes in Microsoft Office look to me more like some new manager trying to justify why he or she was hired than it looks like needed changes.
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